Tag: spirit
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Awakening with Doris Lessing
Why have you done this to me? Jane Mooney wrote to Doris Lessing after reading Shikasta, a science fiction novel with spiritual overtones and themes. Mooney would later say, Shikasta had the most astonishing effect on me. I just thought, “That’s it now. Everything is different. I don’t know how I can leave the house…
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Call it fate, then laugh at it
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them. ~ Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram Luck is what happens to you when fate…
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Coming Through in Waves
A piece for active listening I’ve taken up on this crisp blue morning, and another bit of music for which I have my first college roommate to thank for an introduction some 33 years ago. The accompanying video is, well, awesome. [At least, the one I included when this was originally posted over a decade…